Ava & Soccer

An exciting thing happened Saturday at Ava and Elise's soccer game. Ava scored her first and second ever goals!!
Ava hasn't ever really shown much interest in running as fast as she could or being super aggressive. We were ok with that and figured it was good exercise and that she'd either eventually pick it up and enjoy it a lot or would lose interest. Before the game before this one, I talked to Ava about how to run faster. We've told her lots of times that she's bigger than a lot of the kids and has longer legs and therefore could run faster. Finally, I told her that if she moved her arms faster and said, "ZOOM!", that she'd run faster. I was half-kidding but she tried it anyway. After the game she told me that she tried saying, "ZOOM!" but that it didn't do much but that when she moved her arms faster...."all of the sudden I was passing all these kids!"
Fast forward to yesterday's game and now that she can run past a lot of the kids, she has a tendency to get the ball more often. She was even more aggressive in getting the ball and took it to the goal several times and finally scored 2 goals! I was so proud of her. Amidst my cheering and clapping for her, I admit I teared up a little. GO AVA!!!